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Went down the rabbit hole on this. A Nobel Prize-winning immunologist noticed in 1907 that Bulgarian peasants were living past 100 at unusually high rates. His explanation: they ate yogurt every day. His name was Élie Metchnikoff, and he ran the Pasteur Institute in Paris. His lecture made front-page news. Parisians lined up to buy Bulgarian curdled milk. Drugstores across Europe and the US started selling Lactobacilline tablets, basically the world’s first probiotics. But his original theory was partially wrong. The specific bacteria in yogurt (Lactobacillus bulgaricus) don’t actually survive in the human gut. A Yale researcher proved that in 1921. Should’ve been case closed. It wasn’t. In 2021, Stanford ran a clinical trial published in Cell with 36 healthy adults over 10 weeks. One group ate about 6 daily servings of fermented foods (yogurt, kefir, kimchi, kombucha). The other ate high-fiber foods. The fermented food group saw their gut bacterial diversity increase, which is one of the strongest predictors of overall health, and 19 inflammatory proteins in their blood dropped. Including interleukin-6, a protein tied to Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic stress. The high-fiber group? Zero of those 19 proteins decreased. That same year, a Keio University and Broad Institute team studied 160 Japanese centenarians (average age: 107) and published in Nature. These centenarians had gut bacteria producing a bile acid called isoallolithocholic acid, basically a natural antibiotic so new to science it had never been described. It kills drug-resistant bacteria, including C. difficile, a gut infection that hits roughly 500,000 Americans a year. A 2023 Nature Aging study of 1,575 people in China, 297 of them centenarians, found the oldest participants had gut microbiomes that looked younger than people decades below them. More bacterial diversity, more beneficial species, fewer harmful ones. The yogurt meta-analysis data across 12 cohort studies: each additional daily serving is linked to 7% lower all-cause mortality and 14% lower risk of dying from heart disease. Metchnikoff called it 119 years ago. Fermented foods reshape your entire gut ecosystem, increasing the diversity of bacteria living in your intestines, lowering chronic inflammation, and building a biochemical environment where your body fights off disease on its own.

I wonder why Tesla doesn’t have a show room in Nigeria and charging station. Starlink worked, do more with us.

Sold an RX350 F-Sport to this guy and after payment and everything, baba was asking me nicely to help him drive the car to Osapa. That’s when it occurred to me it’s his first car 🤣🤣 Baba doesn’t even know how to drive, but he has jammed block money so he bought his dream car anyway. Let nobody whine you, any car can be your first car. It all depends on your pocket, your mind, and your choice. 🚗💰

The Southeast Maths Olympiad winner returns to Diamond College Owerri to a warm and proud welcome from his school.

This story reminds me of a Mercedes-Benz SLK my dad bought for ₦500k in 2021. The car used to shut off while driving it even went off the day we went to inspect it, and we had to push it into the owner’s compound. The previous owner said several electricians had tried to fix it but couldn’t. My dad still bought it because he liked the car. After trying one electrician without success, he later found someone experienced with the same model. The issue turned out to be just a faulty switch under the car. It cost less than ₦20k to fix, and till today we still use the car. It's only service he has done in the past years

I have a lot of ladies that are searching for men, please help me reach out and marry them! - Nigerian matchmaker begs Nigerian men.

NEW: 🇩🇪🇨🇳 German Chancellor Merz says Germans need to work more in order to match China: “We are simply no longer productive enough. Each individual may say, “I already do quite a lot.” And that may be true. But when you return from China, ladies and gentlemen, you see things more clearly. With work-life balance and a four-day week, long-term prosperity in our country cannot be maintained. We will simply have to do a bit more.”

This is a true life story. Back in school, yahoo was stupidly rampant. My housemate & his best friend went to a certain village to get soap for yahoo. He was given an instruction; “bomb immediately after bathing”. Each time he used the soap, he felt extremely weak and miserable